In the song Sri Guru-vandana, Srila Narottama das Thakura praises the spiritual master with the following words: prema-bhakti jaha hoite ("From him ecstatic prema emanates").

Srila Prabhupada's heart is a great big ocean of transcendental mercy, filled with pure unalloyed love for Sri Sri Radha and Krsna. Miraculously, that rare spiritual mercy is showering like rainfall upon the dry parched sands of this desert-like material world, nourishing the tender roots of innumerable devotional creepers, planted by his loving glance and destined by his desire to grow and blossom into lush green gardens of pure devotional service, filled with the most delicious fruits and fragrant flowers of bhakti-rasa.